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- Usually 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week. However, due to new working ways and flexible forms of work, this can vary between organisations and industries. The statement of employment particulars should state the employee's regular working hours and days of the week they work.
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You cannot work more than 48 hours a week on average - normally averaged over 17 weeks. This law is sometimes called the ‘working time directive’ or ‘working time regulations’. You can choose...
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PeriodValue2024 JUL36.62024 JUN36.62024 MAY36.62024 APR36.7Understand the basics of average full-time working hours in the UK, the Working Time Regulations, holidays and special leave.
- Actual and Usual Hours Worked
- Economic Inactivity
- Employment
- Unemployment
Statistics for usual hours worked measure how many hours people usually work per week. Compared with actual hours worked, they are not affected by absences and so can provide a better measure of normal working patterns. For example, a person who usually works 37 hours a week but who was on holiday for a week would be recorded as working zero actual...
People not in the labour force (also known as economically inactive) are not in employment but do not meet the internationally accepted definition of unemployment because they have not been seeking work within the last four weeks and/or are unable to start work in the next two weeks. The economic inactivity rate is the proportion of people aged bet...
Employment measures the number of people in paid work or who had a job that they were temporarily away from (for example, because they were on holiday or off sick). This differs from the number of jobs because some people have more than one job. The employment rate is the proportion of people aged between 16 and 64 years who are in employment. A mo...
Unemploymentmeasures people without a job who have been actively seeking work within the last four weeks and are available to start work within the next two weeks. The unemployment rate is not the proportion of the total population who are unemployed. It is the proportion of the economically active population (that is, those in work plus those seek...
The law on working time (The Working Time Regulations 1998) sets rules for: the maximum weekly working hours, and how someone can work more hours if they choose. rest during the working day, week and year – find out more about the right to rest. young workers' maximum working hours and rest breaks. night work.
Dec 15, 2020 · Between May to July 2020 and August to October 2020, total actual weekly hours worked in the UK saw a record increase of 104.9 million, or 12.3%, to 960.0 million hours (Figure 4). There were...
Includes maximum weekly working hours, rest breaks and rights for young workers.
